1. 1(情緒)強烈得讓人無法想別的

    A consuming feeling is so strong that it fills your mind and leaves little room for anything else. A consuming ambition, a consuming guilt, a consuming love: you keep turning it over; it seems to eat your attention. It is a fairly serious, slightly literary adjective, not a word for a snack or a shopping trip. It is consume used as a describing word, but in this sense the “using up” is of your thoughts, not of food or money. People also use time-consuming as a set phrase meaning something takes a lot of time; that is the same family, though more everyday, and it is not this feeling-sense.

core核心畫面

組成consume + -ing, here used as an adjective: a feeling that uses you up.

同家族的字

  • consumethe verb underneath: to use something up, here of attention or the heart
  • consumptionthe noun for using something up

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

consumingadj

  • 1

    Holding one's attention or interest.

    • a consuming passion

consumingnoun

  • 1

    consumption; the process by which something is consumed

    • […] in Greek philosophy world cycles and world incinerations were immanent processes of nature, the self-consumings of the cosmic process, which have their corresponding self-restorations.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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